Senta Trömel-Plötz

Senta Trömel-Plötz (born February 26, 1939 in Munich) is a German linguist. Together with Luise F. Pusch she introduced feminist linguistics in Germany.[1]

Senta Trömel-Plötz
BornFebruary 26, 1939
Munich, Germany
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipGerman, American
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania
MovementFeminism

Life

Trömel-Plötz studied linguistics in the USA. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania with the dissertation, Simple Copula Structures in English.[2] The habilitation followed. From 1980 to 1984 she was a professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Konstanz. The professorship was not converted into a permanent position. Trömel-Plötz believes that political reasons prevented her being given a professorship in feminist linguistics. Since then she has worked as a freelance linguist and author and has published numerous publications in the fields of formal linguistics, psycholinguistics, and feminist linguistics.

Her sociolinguistic text Linguistics and Women's Language, which was published for the first time in 1978[3] in the journal Linguistic Reports, broke new ground for feminist linguistics in German-speaking countries. This essay brought to light "for the first time a problematic conflation of grammatical and biological gender" in German. Trömel-Plötz "initiated the debate about the supposedly gender-neutral generic masculine and criticized the fact that this form does not seem gender-neutral but conceptually erases women."[4]

Trömel-Plötz now lives in Pennsylvania. She regularly gives readings and lectures in Europe.

References
  1. "Senta Trömel-Plötz". FemBio. Fembio. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. Plotz, Senta (1969). Simple Copula Structures in English (Thesis).
  3. Trömel-Plötz, Senta (1971). Operationen in der Linguistik (Entdecken Sie die aktuellen BILD Bestseller. Jede Woche neu ed.). Buske Helmut Verlag GmbH. ISBN 3-87118-074-2.
  4. Methoden und Wahrheiten: Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung in Theorie und Praxis. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-3-902811-17-2. OCLC 760125403.
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